Chapter 970: Ling Tianzun Must Die
The ancient gods Qin Mu had visualized had just taken form when the divine sense techniques of the nine Creators came crashing in.
These nine Creators sat motionless, yet their divine sense transformed into various phenomena—dragons, phoenixes, mountains, rivers, clouds, and mist—all surging toward the altar. With a thought from Qin Mu, the ancient gods on the altar each met the incoming techniques head-on, and the battle turned fierce and bloody.
A divine dragon was torn apart by the Heavenly Lord he had visualized, but the moment the dragon disintegrated, it turned back into divine sense. The divine sense surged into the Heavenly Lord’s body, and in the next instant, a great sword sliced through the Heavenly Lord he had visualized from the inside out!
After the Heavenly Lord was cut open, the great sword transformed into a cauldron, inverted itself, and spun wildly, grinding the Heavenly Lord Qin Mu had visualized into ashes, even refining away the divine sense!
Qin Mu’s heart shook violently. Before he could devise a countermeasure, the ancient gods he had visualized were slain one by one by the nine Creators.
Earth Lord had his ox horns severed, his eyes gouged out. Mother Earth was beaten until her bones broke and tendons snapped, then burned to ashes. The other ancient gods also died horribly, each managing at most one or two strikes before being refined into nothingness.
Cold sweat broke out on Qin Mu’s forehead. While the ancient gods he visualized were formidable in combat, he had underestimated the divine sense techniques of the Creators. Moreover, Shu Jun had never taught him divine sense techniques, so his formation of ancient gods was broken in the very first exchange!
The divine sense techniques of the Creators were bizarre and unpredictable, impossible to guard against. They had no fixed form. For example, visualizing a dragon or phoenix, the next moment they would dissolve and transform into other shapes, targeting the weaknesses of the ancient gods he had visualized. This was completely different from techniques formed by Yuan Qi runes!
He could control these visualized ancient gods and even use them to execute techniques, but the visualized gods simply did not possess the strength to withstand the Creators’ divine sense techniques!
The combat power of the ancient gods he visualized was even inferior to that of gods who had reached the Revered God realm!
He visualized frantically, and another batch of ancient gods was born, guarding the altar and blocking the attacks of the nine Creators’ divine sense techniques.
But the techniques visualized by the nine Creators grew more numerous, and breaking through his defenses was only a matter of time.
“Divine sense techniques are this hard to deal with?”
Countless thoughts flashed through Qin Mu’s mind, and in the blink of an eye, he conceived various countermeasures. However, comprehending the techniques to counter divine sense in such a short time was extremely difficult.
Especially fighting one against nine, simultaneously facing nine adult Creators—it was even more challenging.
“Shu Jun, the Divine King, one of the Three Kings of the ancient era, and his techniques are this crude and contemptible?”
Lang Wan Divine King glanced at the large head on the throne, a faint smile on her lips. “The Saint Child inherited from you, yet he’s almost like a child who doesn’t understand divine sense techniques. The way he uses divine sense is laughable. That Shu Jun of the ancient Three Kings is at this level—it surprises me.”
Shu Jun snorted coldly, quite displeased. “I never taught him my divine sense techniques. If I had, heh, not to mention nine adult Creators, even a hundred would be easily taken down!”
Lang Wan Divine King frowned slightly and said softly, “So you mean the Saint Child has never learned divine sense techniques?”
Shu Jun fell silent.
Lang Wan Divine King’s brow furrowed even tighter. That Qin Mu had never learned divine sense techniques was unexpected. She had originally assumed that Shu Jun, as Qin Mu’s teacher, would have passed on the Divine King’s techniques. Then Qin Mu might not have an easy time facing the current trial, but at least he could get through it.
She had never considered that Qin Mu didn’t know a single divine sense technique!
“At this rate, he won’t last much longer.”
Lang Wan Divine King’s brows relaxed, and she thought to herself, “After he dies, I’ll retrieve the Taichu Divine Stone, the Taidi Seal, and the Taidi Altar, and create another Saint Child.”
Just as this thought crossed her mind, suddenly Qin Mu on the altar fell asleep, lying on his side and snoring loudly.
Lang Wan Divine King was stunned. “He’s lying down at a time like this…”
On the altar, Qin Mu activated the Infinite Tribulation Sutra, and instantly countless tiny Qin Mus appeared on the small altar, chattering and bickering, fighting each other, a lively chaos.
These tiny Qin Mus were imitating the techniques of the nine Creators, trying to achieve the same ever-changing divine sense as those Creators. Soon, large swaths of tiny Qin Mus lay dead or wounded.
Some were blown apart by the Creators’ divine sense techniques, some had their heads severed by suddenly appearing flying swords, some were crushed to powder by mountains that appeared out of nowhere, some were torn in half by two dragons, some had divine fire erupt from within and burned to death, and some had water gushing from their eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, drowning under the enemy’s techniques. The scene was extremely brutal.
The altar was incredibly lively, but the nine Creators’ techniques had already breached the altar and reached its top.
Suddenly, Qin Mu’s eyes snapped open. The dream world collapsed, and the tiny Qin Mus that had died in all sorts of bizarre ways vanished like a dream.
Qin Mu sat up straight, his eyes closed, but the vertical eye on his forehead opened. Lightning flashed from the void, and in an instant, thunderclouds filled the sky above the altar, vast and magnificent. Thunderbolts rained down like a storm, crackling!
The area around the altar turned into a sea of thunder. The divine sense techniques of the nine Creators were riddled with holes and fell into a state of stasis.
Those thunderbolts struck the ground and instantly transformed into countless sprouts, growing with the wind. In the blink of an eye, the entire altar was lush with greenery, turning into a primeval forest.
The nine Creators were about to control their divine sense to adapt, when suddenly a gale wind swept in. Desert sands buried the forest, and blazing flames rose. The divine wind whipped up divine fire, and a sea of fire surged toward them!
The sea of fire reached them in an instant. The nine Creators’ foreheads blazed with light, and each reached out, grabbing their divine sense and slashing it through the air. The void split open, countless stars burst forth, and before each of them, a river of stars formed.
New stars continuously emerged from the river of stars, stretching the distance between them, Qin Mu, and the sea of fire, farther and farther apart.
Just then, the sea of fire suddenly vanished, transforming into countless magpies that chirped and flew across the river of stars, forming magpie bridges that reached the opposite shore.
The magpie bridges lunged to the shore, then suddenly reared up, each turning into a giant serpent, opening sky-devouring mouths to swallow the nine Creators.
The nine Creators were startled, and they changed their divine sense again, reversing their techniques into nets to catch the giant serpents.
The nine giant serpents burrowed into the nets, then suddenly dissipated, turning into rolling streams of divine sense that drilled into the crowns of the nine Creators’ heads.
The nine Creators’ eyes snapped open, and they sat motionless, cold sweat pouring from their foreheads. Qin Mu’s divine sense had invaded their bodies. If he visualized something massive, he could burst their physical forms apart!
“That’s enough!”
Lang Wan Divine King’s voice came at just the right moment. Qin Mu’s divine sense immediately flew out from the bodies of the nine Creators, turning into nine invisible currents that returned to the altar and drilled into Qin Mu’s brow.
Lang Wan Divine King turned to the massive head on the throne beside her and said, “Shu Jun Divine King truly lives up to being one of the ancient Three Kings. Earlier, you tried to fool me by saying you hadn’t taught him, but now it seems the Saint Child’s divine sense technique skill is not bad.”
Shu Jun was utterly bewildered, muttering, “I really didn’t… That’s right! I am an ancient Divine King, so naturally I have some methods. Teaching him these crude divine sense techniques might be mediocre, but it’s enough to handle the Creators you’ve carefully cultivated.”
He remained expressionless.
Lang Wan Divine King chuckled lightly, stood up, and smiled. “The Saint Child has passed the three major trials. These three trials are not difficult—given the Saint Child’s status and abilities, he could naturally get through them easily. The final trial tests the Saint Child’s wisdom.”
She walked gracefully to the altar, and light surged from her brow, spreading out like a slowly unfurling glow, forming a domain that enveloped Qin Mu.
Qin Mu’s heart stirred. Through this domain, he looked at the outside world. Beyond the altar, the movements of the Creators had become incredibly swift, like fleeting shadows.
He looked up at the sky. The sun’s movement had also become extremely rapid, crossing from east to west almost in an instant. The setting of the sun and the rising of the moon also happened in an instant!
In the blink of an eye, the sun and moon had alternated three times!
“The Supreme Divine Sense Domain!” Qin Mu’s heart shook violently.
Lang Wan Divine King stood beside him and said softly, “This technique domain is the signature move of our Creator race’s great enemy. The Saint Child must use his own wisdom to break this technique to pass my trial. Otherwise, even if you have the status of the Saint Child, you will die under this technique in the future.”
Qin Mu said softly, “Taidi?”
Lang Wan Divine King’s heart trembled, and she looked down at him.
Compared to her, Qin Mu seemed very small.
She was a Divine King among the Creators, with a vast physical form like that of ancient gods such as Tianyin Empress. Qin Mu was insignificant at her feet.
“Indeed, it is Taidi’s technique.”
Lang Wan Divine King did not deny it. “Taidi betrayed our race, nearly driving us to extinction. This blood feud must be avenged no matter what! I was born to take revenge on him! However, although I have imitated his technique to a considerable degree, I have no confidence in breaking it.”
Qin Mu frowned and probed, “You mean Taidi is still alive? But in the Taixu Realm, I clearly saw that Taidi was dead. His body was trapped by Yun Tianzun and the Creators in the Supreme Divine Sense Domain.”
Lang Wan Divine King shook her head, her body slowly shrinking until she was about the same height as him. “Taidi must still be alive. Back then, countless Creators worshipped him, shaping him into the most powerful existence in the world, with the strongest body and the strongest divine sense. He could not have been trapped and killed there.”
She said softly, “He possesses eternal, indestructible divine sense. He can survive in any form, even by abandoning his body, abandoning his soul, or even abandoning part of his divine sense. The Taidi who died in the Taixu Realm is only a part of him. Other parts of him still survive in the Ancestral Court.”
Qin Mu frowned deeply. Cultivators who reached the level of Chi Huang could exist eternally through indestructible divine sense. Only by erasing Chi Huang’s indestructible divine sense could he be completely eliminated.
For an existence like Taidi, a monster shaped by countless Creators together, his divine sense was even stronger than Chi Huang’s. Eliminating him would indeed be incredibly difficult!
“Why did Taidi want to eliminate the Creators?”
Qin Mu asked, puzzled. “Aren’t you of the same race?”
“Because the Creators made him what he is. The Creators could make him, and they could also make someone else. To secure his rule, he had to eliminate all Creators except himself.”
Lang Wan Divine King stated a cold, hard fact. “Now, more than half a year has passed outside. You need to speed up. You have endless time to break this domain, with me by your side. I set up the Supreme Divine Sense Domain, and even I cannot walk out of it.”
Qin Mu’s heart stirred, and he glanced at the girl beside him. Suddenly, he came to his senses and quickly averted his gaze from her chest, warning himself inwardly: “Qin Mu, Qin Mu, without Fatty Long around, you must keep yourself in check!”
He steadied his mind, trying not to look at this woman of ice and jade.
Qin Mu took out the Taidi Seal and the Taidi Altar. Lang Wan Divine King shook her head. “Using these two treasures in front of Taidi is asking for death.”
Qin Mu put the two treasures away and carefully examined the Supreme Divine Sense Domain.
In the Taixu Realm, he had relied on the Taidi Seal and the Taidi Altar to break the Supreme Divine Sense Domain. But without those two treasures, he now found himself utterly helpless against this domain!
“There must be a way, there must be a way…”
He paced back and forth, the sun rising and setting above his head, the cycle of day and night repeating.
“A year has passed.” Lang Wan Divine King reminded him.
Qin Mu’s heart grew frantic. Suddenly, inspiration struck, and a peach wood hairpin appeared in his hand.
Lang Wan Divine King looked at the hairpin with a puzzled expression.
Qin Mu channeled his Yuan Qi, activated the peach wood hairpin, and swept it through the air. The entire Supreme Divine Sense Domain split open flatly. The moon moving across the sky suddenly stopped, a few stars hung in the east, and everything outside returned to normal.
Lang Wan Divine King was stunned, staring at this scene, unable to speak.
Qin Mu was also stunned. Suddenly, he shuddered and blurted out, “I’ve figured it out! Who killed Ling Tianzun! To him, Ling Tianzun had to die!”
— Donglai, happy birthday!
Brothers, it’s the end of the month, asking for monthly votes! Although my cold isn’t fully better, I’ll definitely do my best to burst out tomorrow!